Recommendations

Recommendation 1

1.72       The committee recommends that the Government review the merits of the various suggestions put forward in the Inspector-General of Intelligence and Security's 2006–07 Annual Report, including the following transparency and accountability issues:

• amending the Inspector General of Intelligence and Security Act 1986 to provide, where appropriate, more frequent reporting of the IGIS's activities in the period between its annual reports;
  
  
• expanding the agency oversight of the Inspector-General of Intelligence and Security; and
  
  
• allowing, in certain circumstances, refugee applicants access to appeal to the Administrative Appeals Tribunal.

1.73       This review should be undertaken and its findings reported to the Senate by the last sitting day of September 2009.

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